Mike Schmidt is joined by Salvatore Ingala and Clara Shikhelman to discuss Newsletter #226.

The Bitcoin Optech Podcast and transcription content is licensed Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0

News

• ● General smart contracts in Bitcoin via covenants (1:21)

• ● Paper about channel jamming attacks (29:46)

Changes to services and client software

• ● Sparrow 1.7.0 released (55:59)

• ● Blixt Wallet adds taproot support (56:42)

• ● Specter-DIY v1.8.0 released (57:07)

• ● Trezor Suite adds coin control features (57:50)

• ● Strike adds taproot send support (58:32)

• ● Kollider exchange launches with Lightning support (58:53)

Releases and release candidates

• ● Bitcoin Core 24.0 RC4 (1:00:06)

• ● LND 0.15.5-beta.rc1 (1:00:36)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Core Lightning #5681 (1:00:54)

• ● Core Lightning #5698 (1:02:09)

• ● Core Lightning #5647 (1:03:21)

• ● LDK #1796 (1:04:52)

• ● BOLTs #1031 (1:06:14)

Transcription

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